This passage taken from the novel Brick Lane by Monica Ali depicts the journey and feelings of the persona‚ Nazneen in her navigation of the streets of London. Using the setting of the novel‚ mood and various literary devices‚ the author‚ Ali‚ is able to convey to readers the subject matter of the extract‚ which is the loneliness and confusion faced by the persona. The setting of the extract plays a major role in the understanding of the passage as a whole. The passage is set in London‚ England
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Do you know differences between city life and village life? Also‚ you may think the city life is most comfortable. You know‚ there are so many differences between them. That is to say‚ people living in cities are different from people living in the city. There are five major differences between city and village (people) lifestyle. I’m going to write social activities or opportunities‚ people’s behaviour‚ most common events‚ safety and getting good education. First of all; there is big advantage
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in my life who have had a huge influence on the making of me as a child to a man. Basically everything which I have seen and heard has had an influence on the man I am today. This is ranging from seeing people on the media to seeing people on the streets; they have left a mark on me. Though fundamentally everyone I have encountered have had an impact on me there are three specific people I would rule out who have had the greatest impact on making the man I am today. These are my two parents and my
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better quality of education and work‚ subsequently smaller‚ independent businesses vanished due to lack of investment and an ageing population. The areas image became dirty and many building became derelict‚ cheap hostels started to fill the streets‚ driving the prostitution and drug use. By the mid 1980’s the government tried to crack down on the cheap hostels but with little success‚ meanwhile the worst of the derelict building were being demolished to create the La Rambla and the historical
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Chapters 1 and 2 The novel begins in 1941 with a twelve year old boy named Eliezer as the narrator. He begins the story by introduces the reader to Moche the Beadle. He was a man of all work at a synagogue. They were Jews of Sighet in a little town in Transylvania. Moche the Beadle was a poor man but nobody ever felt embarrassed by him or his presence. Mocha was very awkward physically but he always made people smile. Eliezer got to know him toward the end of the year when he studied in the Talmud
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into my soul as a blade of silver strikes death upon each fated life I reap. Time has no effect on my unresting spirit. The rays of sunlight set across the dull horizon in the morning cast shadows upon my dark figure. As I walk through the ashen streets of the plaza with my black cloak billowing in the autumnal wind‚ a premonition ignites within my chest. Closely I observe the young man with revenous eyes. He was dressed in large clothes which hung from the malnourished frame of his body. Each defeated
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Life in the city is full of activity. Early in the morning hundreds of people rush out of their homes in the manner ants do when their nest is broken. Soon the streets are full of traffic. Shops and offices open‚ students flock to their schools and the day’s work begins. The city now throb with activity‚ and it is full of noise. Hundreds of sight-seers‚ tourist and others visit many places of interest in the city while businessmen from various parts of the world arrives to transact business. Then
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glass showcase‚ displaying the artistic abilities of many students‚ forms a five second art show. Even further‚ there’s “Main Street”. Composed of mainly lockers‚ this is the prime and busiest hallway in the building. Wandering around‚ I attempt to understand the confusing setup. Clenching onto my florescent orange paper‚ I discover new hallways branching off of Main Street. Hallways labeled “G Hall East”‚ “G Hall West”‚ “F Hall East”‚ “F Hall West” on wood with white‚ engraved letters. More brown
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develop discriminating behavior‚ but when that discrimination is based purely on the color on that person’s skin‚ or his ethnicity‚ without knowing anything else about that person‚ it becomes racism. Being a malicious looking black man‚ walking the streets at night may give someone the idea that you’re a rapist‚ killer‚ robber‚ or even a stalker. Nearly everyone has experienced these same emotions before and each has reacted similarly with varying degrees. Immediately in the first paragraph‚ Staples
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to Atlanta‚ Georgia with a few other kids from my school. This trip was life changing for me. I was put into situations where the socio-economics were tremendously different than what I was used to. For the first time I saw homeless people on the streets‚ and not just one‚ dozens of them. I saw women prostituting themselves just so that they could have a bed to go home to and food to eat. It made me realize how fortunate I am‚ and how unfortunate others are. I had a self realization on this trip that
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